A man will appear in court tomorrow following an alleged serious assault in an Easter Ross town yesterday.
A 60 year old Wester Ross man who had four drink driving convictions was spared a jail sentence after running up his fifth.
Ryan MacDonald (31) committed the offences - which included three charges of rape - in the Sutherland, Inverness and Aberdeen areas.
Police who discovered a Tain man covered in blood were subjected to threats and insults with one officer getting spat at in the face.
The Lord Advocate has instructed a complete reinvestigation of the 2004 murder of Alistair Wilson in Nairn.
Mananchaya Wanitthanawet (40) and Cameron Wilson (30) were convicted at the High Court in Dundee on Thursday, August 22
The 23-year-old Romanian was recruited by a serious organised crime gang uncovered by the police County Lines operation.
From the records of the Highland Archive Centre
A Dunbeath man drove while disqualified less than two months after being banned, Wick Sheriff Court heard on Wednesday.
A sheriff heard on Tuesday how the former head of IT at Dounreay was trapped in a sting operation by police who exposed him as a serial sex offender.